Fanless WC - my quiet rig

aerial · Post by **aerial** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:24 pm

Its a kind of "homemade reserator 2", but i guess more efficient and bigger, and with better, SILENT pump. Only PSU is fanned, but its the last problem to solve.

Stuff:
Venice 2.85ghz @ 1.425V
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
2x 512 Hynix D43
Samsung SP2504 250GB sata2
Tagan U01 480W (future - seasonic or fanless psu)

Cooling:
Case: Silverstone LC-17S
Cpu: X2p (polish waterblock from x4pro)
Gpu: Abadon Pro (polish waterblock from x4pro)
NB: Cube DFI (polish homemade block)
RAM: Spire ram heatsinks (8)
PWMIC: that red&black tinny additional radiator
Tubing: Tygon 12mm
HDD: Scythe Quiet Drive + no vibration solution
Acoustic Mats

Still its not the end of of work, im waiting for new PSU (seasonic 330W). Now - Tagan u01 480w with ticking issue :/ But seasonic = 1x 120mm, the only fan in rig. Maybe some day Fanless psu, but i have to test it before, because of possible airflow problems and overheat.
The bottom line of pics is bad quality, ill try to update it soon (with new psu).

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:28 pm

Cute cat. I'm curious how much did that radiator set you back?

HammerSandwich · Post by **HammerSandwich** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:34 pm

Nice work. Isn't the pump audible?

aerial · Post by **aerial** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:46 am

Pump is very quiet. Its silent even from 10cm. Any way you can recognize it runs only by touching. Then you can feel little vibration, but absolutely no sound.
Construction and price of this pump is similar to central heating hot water pumps. Laing and Grundfos hot water pumps fe:

There is the same type of bearing like in 12V Laing DDC pumps

Radiator is also from central heating. Its typical model, very cheap - 50x60cm and costs about 50$ (new).